Inside a knitting store during a Whitehorse winter, community grows like a sweater from a skein of yarn—through single stitches that gather and grow into something strong and warm.
Winters in the sparsely populated Yukon are long, cold and dark—a natural recipe for isolation. For newcomers like Alexandra Knowles, it can be hard to find friends. But anywhere there is a yarn store, there are knitters. And where there are knitters, there is a knitting circle, weaving together a circle of care, one stitch at a time—and reminding us of the simple ways that community is built on presence, storytelling and shared purpose.
My Knitting Circle, Alexandra Knowles, provided by the National Film Board of Canada